Senior Security Engineer

Applicable Limited; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Associate Security Platform Engineer, where you'll perform critical operational security tasks. This entry-level role involves monitoring security incidents, maintaining security tools, and working on a diverse team. Expand your skills and advance your career in a supportive environment where innovation thrives.

Qualifications

• Entry level knowledge on SIEM or security tools.
• Relevant networking certifications preferred.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to security incidents as part of a 24/7 team.
• Administer security tools for log gathering.
• Document best practices and identify automation opportunities.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Customer service orientation

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology

Job description

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It’s about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That’s why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.

Your day at NTT DATA
The Associate Security Platform Engineer is an entry level subject matter expert, responsible for learning how to facilitate problem resolution and mentoring for the overall team.

This role performs operational security tasks such as performance and availability monitoring, log monitoring, security incident detection and response, security event reporting, and content maintenance (tuning).

The Associate Security Platform Engineer is responsible for detecting and monitoring escalated threats and suspicious activity affecting the organization's technology domain (servers, networks, appliances and all infrastructure supporting production applications for the enterprise, as well as development environments).

Key responsibilities:

• Works as part of a 24/7 team working on rotational shifts.
• Works as part of Platform and Content Engineering handling tunings, stake holder requests, escalations, reporting, trainings.
• Administers the organization's security tools to gather security logs from environment.
• Lifecycle management of the supported security tools/technologies, Break-fix, Patching, Live update.
• Adheres to SOPs and notify stake holders on log flow/log format issues.
• Documents best practices.
• Identifies opportunities to make automations which will help the incident response team.
• Performs security incident handling and response from several vectors including End Point Protection and Enterprise Detection and response tools, attack analysis, malware analysis, network forensics, computer forensics, and a broad range of skills in LAN technologies, Windows and Linux O/S’s, and general security infrastructure.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Entry level knowledge on implementation and monitoring of any SIEM or security tools/technologies.
• Entry level knowledge on security architecture, worked across different security technologies.
• Customer service orientated and pro-active thinking.
• Ability to problem solve and is highly driven and self-organized.
• Great attention to detail.
• Good analytical and logical thinking.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Team player with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant level of Networking certifications such as CCNA, JNCIA, ACCA, PCNSA, CCSA etc. preferred.
• Relevant level of Security certifications such as AZ-500, SC-200, Security+, CEH etc. will be added advantage.

Required experience:

• Entry level experience in Security technologies like (Firewall, IPS, IDS, Proxy etc.).
• Entry level experience in technical support to clients.
• Entry level experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Entry level experience providing remote support in Security Technologies.
• Entry level experience in SOC/CSIRT Operations.
• Entry level experience in handling security incidents end to end.
• Entry level experience in Security engineering.

Workplace type:

On-site Working

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Accelerate your career with us. Apply today